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GOVERNOR.

by lindisa-mathabela-1

**I exist to resist all your heavy-headed hits. Your words in stone, more absolute than death. The way you glance below your jagged bridge, a grin dried in arrogance. Your footsteps frighten the earth, but cease to shake my defiance. Gravels cave, underfires exposed. But even then I'll swim, in your ocean of shallowness, tigers on my tail, Paradise Mirages mocking my waterless skin, even then, I said, I will swim to the Revolution's Shore. Nevermind your ignorance, seeing blue skies and arguing them RED. Deluded certainty, swearing on a man's soul to prove your point and feed your obsession. I say "yes", you say "of course", but no doubt I'm in the wrong. I say "maybe" you say "perhaps, and so you've proved your wisdom blind. Mastered conspiracies, you've convinced your lies true. In your mind you walk on water, as you strike your soles on mere tar. Governor's Confetti lay dead on Governor's Ground; fool's bravery in act, leading souldiers from behind. This world, The Principal's Playroom: clay towers and cars, play moneys and guards. In the sun, your tin castles smile and glimmer in the shine. But inside, hollowness reigns and you fail to see. Eyes and Eyes fall to your sleep, calamity by the masses as you care not to care. Seconds linger as misted windshields shield the drunk driver, and not even the death he brings can break the glass. Deaf man with hearing ears, the blind one who can see.**
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